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Can you drink it "raw" so to speak? It smells like wine. I can put all 6 gallons back into a bucket but that obviously leaves a whole lot more exposed head space

Sheesh I didn't even think to just put it all in another bucket.. It's wine by the way...

So I apparently made a 6 gallon strawberry kit. I racked it into a 5 gallon carboy before I realized the error. I now have a 5 Gallon perfectly full carboy and roughly a gallon left I the primary bucket. What to do? First thought was drink it...lol 2nd issue (maybe) I got busy in life...

Maybe experiment with rice wine in a glass jar. There is a current running thread on it. That being said I don't see why making a batch in a carboy wouldn't work other than being a pain in the a $$ .https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=361095

I did some this last batch....then had a question https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=590943 I used the Lee's and left over top off

So I usually make a few island mist type kits a year as the girls that come up to camp like that sweet flavor. I am almost threw with a island breezin black cherry. I racked it out of my fermentation bucket into a carboy to rest before bottling. I had some of the top off I pulled aside sitting...

so the other day the SG read at about .988 so i moved into the final step. Addition of the final packs including the "F" pack. once all in i hit it with my drill for a bit, not too much foaming at all. The SG reading afterwards was 1.010 which the directions said i should be at...weird...

man work sucks.... anyway SG shows about .990 so I moved to stage 2 and racked it to a carboy. smells like wine....snuck a sip...tastes like wine...so i'll let it sit for the requisite 10 days and move into stage 3...which i assume will yield the blackberry flavor, and ridicules sweetness...

Walked past the bucket on my way out the door for work, and didn't see any more bubbling, which would be amazing only 6 day in. ...I'll hopefully get to check it later tonight

Most restaurants will happily save bottles for you. Find a nice local mom and pop Italian joint, go have a few meals, talk to the staff, and you'll have more bottles than you can use. Return a full one or two and you'll have a never ending suply

It's funny. I dumped a big old bag of purple juice in the bucket, I think it tasted like berries but it was so sweet I couldn't be sure. It may have just been my imagination since thats what it's supposed to be. I looked at the ingrediants just now and shure enough it lists grape juice and or...

big beautiful bubbles in less than 12 hours.

started a batch of blackberry from a kit just now, my first attempt at one of these store kits. Supposed to be super easy and fast which is what i am looking for right now. Threw it together and got a gravity reading of about 1.050 to start with 4 cups of added sugar. See if the yeasties...